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The Ancient Near East has a fascinating and unique source of pictorial information in the …
Very similar in structure to the other book on cylinder seals that I'm reading, but this one is 30 years more up to date
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gonna try the "beef" chili tonight!
@ranjit yay! I have this out from the library rn!
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set …
@pixouls@post.lurk.org @grumpy@grumpys.online @liaizon@social.wake.st huh! I thought it was just a delay but you're right that emailing isn't working correctly. DM me your email address and I'll send you the code
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel …
no lesbians in this one, unfortunately for a wilkie collins novel
The other Sumer book I'm reading is pretty dry, but I am so enthused about getting extremely specific here
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science …
A depiction of the Sumerian civilization in ancient Mesopotamia based on excavated literary tablets. Describes …
...the king, or as he is known in Sumerian, the "big man"...
— The Sumerians by Samuel Noah Kramer (Page 74)
Props to the children's pamphlet I just read that went into detail about the etymology of "lu(2)-gal" as lu(2), meaning man, and gal, meaning big, which form a compound word in Sumerian, an agglutinative language, as well as providing the cuneiform characters.
I put this on hold at the library thinking it was a book but it turned out to be a children's pamphlet. That surprise aside, it was quite good!
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
For generations, our remote …
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I do think I'll cook it for longer at a lower temperature next time tho
Content warning this is the pettiest recipe pet peeve, but:
@nicknicknicknick I also feel this way about things that call for 1.5 tablespoons. like, I know how to measure a half tablespoon (1.5 teaspoons), but ugh
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the trumpet mushroom bacon is good! I've been looking for a replacement for my seitan-based bacon and I think this is a keeper.
At Noma--four times named the world's best restaurant--every dish includes some form of fermentation, whether …
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Koji flour can be made into a marzipan-ish product by whisking together equal parts by weight of neutral oil and koji flour, then adding 10% of the total weight in powdered sugar
— The Noma Guide to Fermentation by René Redzepi (Page 256)
sign me the heck up
